Brooklyn Reporter article shows hornets' nest frenzy that Brian Fox and his "staff" set off by getting on one side in something that they know nothing about

 
Setting off the powder keg  >>>   A little over a week ago  ---  Brian Fox led a poorly attended demonstration in the heart of Bay Ridge  ---  in support of two pro-Israel & pro-IDF young men, who had claimed that they were attacked by Bay Ridge folks, in front of a Bay Ridge store, located in one of the larger Arab communities in NYC, Bay Ridge  ---  one activist group described such a demonstration as a "...  'provocation or even terrorism' against the neighborhood’s sizable Palestinian and broader Muslim community...." 

This past weekend, there was a confrontation between competing groups of demonstrators that needed to be heavily policed by a large contingent of the NYPD to keep the groups separated and avoid violence  ---  That demonstration was held in Besonhurst, because it needed to be moved from the original site planned in Bay Ridge  >>>  so as "... not to inflame tensions..."

Even though the past weekend's demonstration in support of the two young men previously supported by Brian Fox was largely organized and sponsored by Fox's ostensible Republican colleague, Inna Vernikov  >>>  Fox was apparently not invited to that event which featured elected officials  ---  and Fox did not attend the pro-Israel, pro-IDF, pro-Zavadsky & Kaganovich demonstration in Bensonhurst

Recent reports in both the Brooklyn Reporter and the Brooklyn Paper clearly show that the issues involved are far more complicated than what Brian Fox had to say about them shortly after >>> and based only on <<<  the first reports  ---  however, Fox and his "staff" decided that their throwing their own "Molotov Cocktail" into this very inflammatory situation was just something that Fox had to do politically  ---  so they did it, whether they were properly informed or not.....

A January 5th article in the Brooklyn Reporter by Jaime Dejesus is the first to substantially cover the other side of the issues raised by Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich  ---  the side presented by counter-demonstrators in Bensonhurst to the positions taken by the likes of Brian Fox and his "staff" during their earlier demonstration in front of the Foot Locker store in Bay Ridge.

 

This is what that group of counter-demostrators looked like last Sunday at the clashing demonstrations at and near Bay Parkway and 86th Street in Bensonhurst:

According to this very recent report in the Brooklyn Reporter by Jaime Dejesus:

"....  Rabbi Dovid Feldman of Neturei Karta International, a spokesman for the counter-protest, said his group was outraged by the march and by the usage of the IDF sweatshirt....  'Instead of criticizing this act of provocation against a Palestinian neighborhood, which is deeply pained by the endless oppression of their family members by the Israel Defense Forces, they plan to escalate this provocation and include the wider Jewish community,' Feldman said on Facebook. 'This demonstration will in no way reduce anti-Semitism; it will worsen it.'...  Feldman also said that Palestinians who find the IDF logo offensive are not being anti-Semitic....  'People who denounce this incident and parade the IDF logo would do well to look themselves in the mirror and consider the violence committed by the Israelis during over 70 years of occupation of Palestinian land,' he said...."

 

 

A couple of days ago, another publication, the Brooklyn Paper, in a report by Ben Brachfeld,  had reported that  >>> 

"....  The rally was initially set to take place at the Bay Ridge Foot Locker, but was soon after switched to Bensonhurst. Protesters ended up marching from Bay Parkway along 86th Street to the Bensonhurst Foot Locker, at the intersection with Bay 26th Street....  Vernikov spokesperson Tova Chatzinoff-Rosenfeld said that the protest was moved from Bay Ridge out of respect for the neighborhood’s large Palestinian and Muslim population....  'We didn’t want to inflame tensions,' she said, also noting violent threats Vernikov and the protesters had received on social media, owing largely to the image of people in IDF hoodies, which attendees were encouraged to wear, marching into a Palestinian neighborhood. The IDF is notorious internationally for brutally enforcing Israel’s occupation of Palestine....  Bay Ridge activist group Fight Back Bay Ridge posted on social media that the planned rally amounted to 'provocation or even terrorism' against the neighborhood’s sizable Palestinian and broader Muslim community...."

 

Apparently Brian Fox wasn't properly informed about any of these considerations when he and his "staff" decided that it was better to turn the frying pan of heated debate into a stovetop fire of fanatical frenzy.  Fox is the kind of guy that really doesn't care if the house burns down as long as his portion of food is well cooked in the process (FYI, see Charles Lamb's "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig")